On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
> I, however, am not 100% convinced --ignore-applied is too
> dangerous to be useful in any conceivable use cases, at least
> not yet. For example, you might be cherry-picking a change from
> a foreign branch with 'git-diff-tree -p other~45 | git apply',
> where the current branch may have already aquired part of the
> changes that foreign branch contains since 45 generations ago.
.. and that's why we use a three-way merge, and not diffs, to merge two
branches.
--ignore-applied really is a pretty dangerous thing. I can see that it
might do the right thing in many cases, but definitely not in a scripted
environment, much less in an "import".
By definition, importing stuff must apply, since it clearly applied in
whatever original source control tool you are importing from. So if an
importer needs --ignore-applied, it is fundamentally doing something
wrong.
And I just realized what "SourcePuller" is. Gaah. Trust me, that export is
bad, and the original source control tool did everything very well indeed.
Linus
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